NBN Co reveals 58 percent of HFC network still unserviceable

Almost 1.2m premises can’t support a retail service.

NBN Co has revealed that 58 percent of its hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) footprint remains unserviceable, seven months after the sales freeze on connections was lifted.

The network builder said that as of November 16 there were still 1,192,965 premises in the HFC footprint whose connections were classed as unserviceable.

That equated to 58.2 percent of all HFC premises declared ready for service, the company said.

“The HFC figure is temporarily inflated during the period of the activations pause,” NBN Co said in notes accompanying the 58 percent figure, repeating verbatim a statement it previously made back in April.

“The majority of premises in the ‘paused’ HFC footprint will be moved to other serviceable classes throughout 2018 and a corresponding fall in the HFC percentage can be expected.”

NBN Co froze HFC sales between December 11 last year and late April this year so it could remediate parts of the network and improve performance. It kept rolling out more HFC despite not being able to sell any.

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